There are traditional holiday starters I strive to do each year. And I haven’t been able to cross out anyone of them at all today. Was it a bad December 1st? Not at all. The fact that I’m here writing, it says a lot about how December 1st was.

Here’s a set of questions you can ask your kids about their perspective when you are concerned. It’s a great idea to ask this each year when they get older to see how their perspectives change, but doing it once is just as nice – you still get to capture how they see things – how they see YOU.